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The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
Tom Shadyac

Meaning of "unheard-of" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNHEARD-OF

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNHEARD-OF

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unheard-Of is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNHEARD-OF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of unheard-of in the English dictionary

The first definition of unheard-of in the dictionary is previously unknown. Other definition of unheard-of is without precedent. Unheard-Of is also highly offensive.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNHEARD-OF

unhead
unheaded
unheal
unhealable
unhealed
unhealing
unhealth
unhealthful
unhealthfully
unhealthfulness
unhealthier
unhealthiest
unhealthily
unhealthiness
unhealthy
unheard
unheard of
unheart
unheated
unhedged

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNHEARD-OF

a bit of
a couple of
a load of
all of
any number of
at the cost of
at the expense of
at the mercy of
at the request of
be at the bottom of
be the making of
because of
bulletproof
by means of
by reason of
of
on top of
undreamed-of
unthought-of
well-thought-of

Synonyms and antonyms of unheard-of in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «UNHEARD-OF»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «unheard-of» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of unheard-of

Translation of «unheard-of» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNHEARD-OF

Find out the translation of unheard-of to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of unheard-of from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unheard-of» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

没发生过的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

insólito
570 millions of speakers

English

unheard-of
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अनसुना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لم يسمع من
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неслыханное
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sem precendentes
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উদ্ভটি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sans précédent
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

tidak pernah di dengari
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unbekannt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

前代未聞の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

들어 본 일이 없는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Unheard-of
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không để ý đến
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கேள்விப்படாத
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पूर्वी कधीही न ऐकलेला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Duyulmamış
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sconosciuto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niesłychanym
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нечуване
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nemaiauzit - a
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανήκουστη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ongehoord
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oerhörda
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uhørt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unheard-of

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNHEARD-OF»

The term «unheard-of» is quite widely used and occupies the 37.837 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of unheard-of
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNHEARD-OF» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «unheard-of» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «unheard-of» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about unheard-of

EXAMPLES

QUOTES WITH «UNHEARD-OF»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word unheard-of.
1
Tom Shadyac
The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNHEARD-OF»

Discover the use of unheard-of in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unheard-of and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell
Throughout her coverage of the sensational trial, Gitta Sereny never believed the characterizations of Bell as the incarnation of evil, the bad seed personified.
Gitta Sereny, 2000
2
Unheard Of: Memoirs of a Canadian Composer
Canadian composer John Beckwith recounts his early days in Victoria, his studies in Toronto with Alberto Guerrero, his first compositions, and his later studies in Paris with the renowned Nadia Boulanger, of whom he offers a comprehensive ...
John Beckwith, 2012
3
Ears of the Angels: Healing the Sounds - Heard and Unheard - ...
" - Christiane Northrup, MD This is the story of violin maker Deena Zalkind Spear, who developed innovative physical methods to enhance the sounds of violin, violas and cellos, and then discovered she could transform the acoustics of ...
Deena Zalkind Spear, 2003
4
Living the Death of God: A Theological Memoir
This is not unheard of in the history of theology— one has only to think of the late Luther— nor is it unheard of in the history of philosophy, as witness both Plato and Hegel, but it is unheard of in our imaginative history, unheard of in our ...
Thomas J. J. Altizer, 2006
5
The Unheard Voices of Truants: A Study of the Aurora Public ...
During the 1980's and 1990's, truancy reached unheard of peaks. The average daily attendance dropped in schools and absentee rates were up to 7% according to Education Week (1977). Delinquent Behavior and Truancy Many cases ...
Barbara Jean Cooper, 2009
6
Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry
"In the end, however, what are we to expect of the aftereffects of a religion that enacted during the centuries of its foundation that unheard-of philological farce about the Old Testament? I refer to the attempt to pull away the Old Testament from ...
Anthony Hecht, 2003
7
The Skin of the System: On Germany's Socialist Modernity
—Johannes R. Becher, The Great Plan2 1. the unheard-of beginning: introduction to a socialist flaying Echoing the claim by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, the father-figure of German bourgeois literature, that the dramatic novel is an “ unheard-of ...
Benjamin Robinson, 2009
8
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
ously close to counting as the rule rather than as the exception. Situations that stand as exceptional in our own day and age were not necessarily unheard of in another era. As shocking as the deeds of Hansel and Gretel's parents may seem to ...
Maria Tatar, 2003
9
Some Unheard of Curiosities
THIS 8 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Manual of Cartomancy and Occult Divination, by Arthur Edward Waite. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564594343.
Arthur Edward Waite, 2010
10
Las Memorable Accidents, and Unheard of Transactions, ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Memorable Accidents, 2010

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNHEARD-OF»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unheard-of is used in the context of the following news items.
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Toddler Almost Dies From Nearly Unheard-of Allergy
(Newser) – A two-and-a-half-year-old Pennsylvania girl did something unremarkable while at a Walmart—and it almost killed her. The girl ate a mandarin ... «Newser, Nov 14»
2
A union contract gives Tufts adjuncts 'unheard-of' rights
Inside Higher Ed rightly terms these guarantees “unheard-of at most institutions.” As we have previously noted, being routinely passed over for full-time, ... «ScienceCareers.org, Oct 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Unheard-Of [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/unheard-of-1>. Apr 2024 ».
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